Scientists studying rare tapeworm living in man's brain

X-ray images over the course of four years shows the worm migrating 5cm from the right side of the brain to the left, as shown by the cluster of ring-enhancing lesions the larvae produced. - Genome Biology 2014

LONDON: Scientists in Britain removed and studied a rare tapeworm that lived in a man's brain for four years, researchers said on Friday.

The parasite travelled 5cm from the right side of the brain to the left.